Short film
What Do the Maknines Dream Of
2026 · 22 min
A quiet, drifting day of goodbyes that wraps you in loneliness and tender fear, asking patience as it lingers on faces and streets.
- Directed by
- Sarra Ryma
- Genres
- Drama
- Overview
- What Do the Maknines Dream of follows the existential drift of two young Algerians as they are about to leave everything behind to cross the Mediterranean. Over the course of a day, the film is an invitation to get lost with this unusual couple, to experience their loneliness, to wander along with them through the streets, to share their passions, their fears, and to feel their pain as they say goodbye.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, bleak, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Isolation, immigration, love, fate
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Sarra Ryma
- Genres
- Drama